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Designer Dee Elms and husband Doug Brown took a team approach to decorating their Cambridge home. Both “like a space where everything has its place” says Elms, but tend to disagree, says Doug, on “how to hang art.” He adds, “It’s usually best that someone leaves and the other person hangs everything.”

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It can be hard to verbalize design concepts, so Dee Elms recommends collecting images of things you like. “Pointing to a photo and saying, ‘See, this is the stone vanity top I like,’ and ‘This is how I want to hang the sconces’ really helps communication.”

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